Sent from satoshi@vistomail.com on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 20:54:55 PST (04:54 UTC on January 9) — just hours after the public announcement on the Cryptography mailing list, and about seven weeks after Finney’s own pre-release scalability questions — Satoshi personally notified Hal Finney of the Bitcoin release:
Satoshi Nakamoto (email to Hal Finney, January 09, 2009, 4:54:55 AM UTC)Thought you’d like to know, the Bitcoin v0.1 release with EXE and full sourcecode is up on Sourceforge:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar
www.bitcoin.orghas release notes and screenshots.Satoshi
Finney downloaded the software and, on January 11, 2009, posted his famous “Running bitcoin” tweet. The next day, January 12, Satoshi sent him 10 BTC in block 170 — the first known person-to-person Bitcoin transaction.
Hal Finney later recalled in his “Bitcoin and me” post (March 2013): “I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them.”
This email is the second of three in the archive’s hub entry for the 2020 CoinDesk disclosure of previously unpublished Satoshi-Finney correspondence.
